Numbers 9:6

9:6 It happened that some men ¹  who were ceremonially defiled ²  by the dead body of a man ³  could not keep ⁴  the Passover on that day, so they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day.

Numbers 36:1

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36:1 Then the heads of the family groups ⁵  of the Gileadites, the descendant of Machir, the descendant of Manasseh, who were from the Josephite families, approached and spoke before Moses ⁶  and the leaders who were the heads of the Israelite families. ⁷ 

[9:6]  ¹ tn In the Hebrew text the noun has no definite article, and so it signifies “some” or “certain” men.

[9:6]  ² tn The meaning, of course, is to be ceremonially unclean, and therefore disqualified from entering the sanctuary.

[9:6]  ³ tn Or “a human corpse” (so NAB, NKJV). So also in v.7; cf. v. 10.

[9:6]  ⁴ tn This clause begins with the vav (ו) conjunction and negative before the perfect tense. Here is the main verb of the sentence: They were not able to observe the Passover. The first part of the verse provides the explanation for their problem.

[36:1]  ⁵ tn The expression is “the heads of the fathers by the family of the Gileadites.”

[36:1]  ⁶ tn The Greek and the Syriac add “and before Eleazar the priest.”

[36:1]  ⁷ tn Heb “heads of the fathers.”